A 50-million-year-old identity crisis, your gut's relationship with your brain, and a cosmic demolition derby. 🐊🧠🪐

Just another perfectly normal week in science.

Which one surprised you the most? 👀

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Weight stigma, including in healthcare, reduces trust and leads people to delay appointments. 🩺 A new review calls for stigma reduction to be central to clinical guidelines. 📖 Read more: https://ow.ly/Vxrf50ZUmu0
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📖 What helps people stay engaged with obesity treatment? A new umbrella review in our journal Obesity Reviews points to two things: supportive networks and stigma-free care. 🤝 Read more: https://ow.ly/9eMC50ZUmkA
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Nothing is sitting as still as it looks.

Swipe through for three new findings about movement in places we usually can’t see—then tell us which one surprised you most.

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Without guidelines and data behind them, health systems can't identify, manage or track obesity effectively. The Global Obesity Forum in Madrid this October brings policymakers together to close gaps like this.
🔗 https://ow.ly/NN1J50ZRpR3
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📊 A third of the world, 67 of 194 countries, have one or fewer of eight basic indicators of health system readiness: guidelines and data on obesity, diet and activity. Just 13 countries are fully ready.
🔗 Find out more: https://ow.ly/cmje50ZRnYG
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Did you know? Obesity is a recognised risk factor for at least 13 types of cancer, contributing to 4 to 8% of all new cancer cases globally, a connection that remains under-discussed in obesity policy.

🔗Read more: https://ow.ly/ZSvL50ZPcC5
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📰 "The convergence of HIV and obesity in low- and middle-income countries is not coincidental, it reflects the same underlying failures of equity, governance and political will." Kent Buse, on why global health must address both together. Read the blog: https://ow.ly/PMVX50ZPczj
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📰 New research tracked over 300,000 Chilean children and found that food warning labels, school food restrictions and marketing bans together measurably reduced childhood overweight and obesity.

Evidence that policy works: https://ow.ly/7iCn50ZPcxY
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🌍 Our Global Obesity Observatory has been collating data and information on obesity since 1998.

🔗Explore it at data.worldobesity.org
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Friday Findings 🔎 How active we can be is shaped by our environment, not just our motivation. Our environments play a crucial role in shaping health. 💪

🔗Explore the systems behind obesity: https://ow.ly/KxUB50ZPcvc
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From childhood obesity and clinical care to prevention and policy, World Obesity's four peer-reviewed journals help shape the evidence behind global action on obesity.

Because better research leads to better prevention, treatment and care.

➡️ https://ow.ly/SNBV50Z9hNL
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Food choices aren't made in isolation, they're shaped by the environment around them.

Learn more 👉 https://ow.ly/pyk850ZMELH
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Science got delightfully specific this week. 🔬

Swipe through for three new findings from PNAS and PNAS Nexus. Which one are you bringing up at dinner?

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💡 Restricting the reach of food marketing to children has been shown to reduce their exposure to it, even against continued industry interference.

🔗 https://www.worldobesity.org/what-we-do/our-policy-priorities/the-roots-of-obesity
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📢 In Latin America, marketing tactics like cartoon characters and product placement appeal directly to children, and are linked to poorer-quality diets.

🔗 https://www.worldobesity.org/what-we-do/our-policy-priorities/the-roots-of-obesity
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Processed food is now widely available, affordable and heavily promoted. The food environment has shifted dramatically towards it over the past few decades.

🔗 https://www.worldobesity.org/what-we-do/our-policy-priorities/the-roots-of-obesity
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🛒 #FridayFindings: Food environments shape choice, through price, placement and marketing.

🔗Read more: https://ow.ly/KRaH50ZMEvl
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The economic cost of overweight and obesity is set to reach 3.3% of global GDP by 2060.

The global cost of obesity-related healthcare and lost productivity will rise exponentially if governments continue to neglect the issue.

➡️ https://ow.ly/Lgkz50ZLRi7
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🔎 #FridayFindings What if you could test childhood obesity prevention policies before implementation? Try strategies in a live sandbox. https://preventioncentre.org.au/resources/national-decision-support-tool-for-preventing-childhood-overweight-and-obesity-in-australia/